Gran Turismo 5 is already profitable?!!!

[lestatdark]

NJ5 said:

lestatdark said:

I remember those threads xD People saying that after GT4, PD has done nothing but focusing on GT5, while their competitors did X, Y or Z quantity of games :P

It's funny, since GT4 (EU/NA release of 2005), I count 3 games released by PD themselves: Tourist Trophy, GT5P and GT PSP xD 

If GT5 releases this year, that gives you an average of 1 game per 1,25 years, much higher than said competitors xD

Oh well :P

It's not very fair towards other developers to count GT5P in that comparison. They could launch several of these prologue titles without much additional effort (just publish a few development milestones), and other developers can argue their demos count as launched games as well.

I know GT5P has more content than most demos, but it's still basically an incomplete version of a game being developed, making it essentially zero effort to launch (same as demos).

 

That's true, but whenever GT5P is put into the table, it's always counted as a different development time and budget (see Onyxmeth response). Even not counting GT5P, there are still two another major projects developed by PD, GTPSP and TT, which still puts the average at 1 game per 1,66 years, still better than their competitors.

I think that it's still not fair when people talk about PD and their long development times, discarding all the projects that they do in between.